Embellishment synonyms and antonyms

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beautiful (related)
Something that adorns
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garnishment
(Law) A judgment that a third party should pay money owing to a defendant directly to a plaintiff.
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decoration
That which adorns, enriches, or beautifies; something added by way of embellishment; ornament.
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ornament
A Christmas tree decoration.
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ornamentation
Something that decorates or adorns; an embellishment.
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trim
(Uncountable) Decoration; especially, decoration placed along edges or borders.
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trimming
The side dishes of a meal
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adornment (related)
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embellish (related)
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frill
A fold of skin around the neck of a reptile, a fringe of feathers around the neck of a bird, etc.
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embroidery
Something superficial or unnecessary but attractive or desirable
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hyperbole
(Countable) An instance or example of this technique.
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elaboration
(Electronics) The process of taking a parsed tree of an abstract integrated circuit definition in a language such as Verilog and creating a hierarchy of module instances that ends with primitive (atomic) gates and statements.
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exaggeration (related)
Exaggeration
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injury (antonym)
A particular form of hurt, damage, or loss:
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spoliation (antonym)
(Law) The intentional destruction of or tampering with (a document) in such way as to impair evidentiary effect.
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disfigurement (antonym)
A disfiguring or being disfigured
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simplification (antonym)
The act of simplifying or something that has been simplified
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Embellishment Sentence Examples

  • His work was overloaded with rhetorical embellishment, which he was the first to introduce into Roman history.

  • In 1904 a bill was passed in the chambers for the enlargement and embellishment of the palace.

  • The metallic bowl and mouthpiece of the pipe offered a tempting surface for embellishment, as well as the clasp of the pouch; and the netsuke, being made of wood, ivory or other material susceptible of carving, also gave occasion for art and ingenuity.

  • Between 1548 and 1554 rose the château d'Anet, in the embellishment of which Goujon was associated with Philibert Delorme in the service of Diana of Poitiers.

  • In the work of improving the city, the national government assumed the expense of the commercial quays, the filling of the Sao Christovao bay, the opening of the Mangue canal and its embellishment, the opening of the Avenida Central, the extension of the sewage system and the addition of new sources to the water supply, while the city was responsible for the Avenida Beira-Mar, the opening of a new avenue from the Largo da Lapa westward to Rua Frei Caneca, the removal of the Morro do Senado, the widening of some streets crossing the Avenida Central and the opening and straightening of other streets.

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